The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811

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The murders and the murderer are analyzed by Thomas De Quincey in his famous essay On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827). The murders and Charles Horton are featured in Lloyd Shepherd’s historical novel, The English Monster (2012). The murders are featured in Lona Manning’s historical novel, A Marriage of Attachment (2018). They offered no evidence against Dyson, and Adelaide’s defence counsel was able to argue, amongst other things, that the case against her was no less circumstantial. Meanwhile, Mrs. Williamson was found in the sitting room, with a fractured skull. Her throat, like her husband’s, had also been cut. The body of Bridget, the servant, was found in the same room, and it was ‘supposed that she had been killed while in the act of laying the fire for the following morning.’ Her throat was cut, ‘most inhumanly,’ too. In the early hours of New Year’s Day, 1886, 41-year-old grocer Thomas Bartlett was found dead in his home in Pimlico. Alerted by Constable Piper’s visit to the fact that they had aroused suspicion, those inside number 11 readied their weapons.Still, it was to take 23 years before Britain saw its first ‘railway murder’– and it all began on 9 July 1864 with the 21.50 from Fenchurch Street. With the population of London and even the rest of Britain so disturbed, soon rewards were being demanded, so that the perpetrator or perpetrators could be brought to justice. On either side of the way are poor, squalid shops. Through- [-79-]out the day the road and the pavement are crowded with barrows laden with fish,

Contemporary newspaper illustration of the pen maul used in the first murders, showing the initials "IP" or "JP" By his own admission, the culprit was a man named John Robinson, also revealed as a bigamist during the course of the investigation.and never says nothing to us. S'elp me Cot, vot vith railvays an' Sailors' Homes, there'll soon be no living in It is fascinating to speculate on how different our history would have been had Churchill been shot and killed during the fire fight. Had he not been there in 1940 then Lord Halifax would have become Prime Minister and he was known to favour negotiated peace with the Nazis. Fascinating indeed! A subsequent examination of the shop suggested that this was not a case of robbery, but other than the hammer few other clues as to what had transpired could be unearthed.